The five-hour day visit by the Pope to Coventry Airport on 30 May 1982 required a major exercise in medical planning. First- and second-line first-aid facilities were provided by the British Red Cross Society and the St John Ambulance Association. Hospital facilities were provided in a 30-bed Territorial Army field hospital. The visit attracted a crowd of 350,000; 1424 casualties were seen at f...

There have been a number of medical cases of malpractice at the Musashino Red Cross Hospital. In 1995, we established a “Medical Practice Evaluation Committee” consisting of 11 doctors to review incident reports submitted by doctors describing their mistakes to resolve their own problems with reference to risk management systems in the field of aviation. I discuss the challenges faced by the Mu...

OBJECTIVES There is an absence of prospective data evaluating the impact of prehospital intubation in adult trauma patients. Our objectives were to determine the outcome of trauma patients intubated in the field who did not have an acutely lethal traumatic brain injury (death within 48 hours) compared with patients who were intubated immediately on arrival to the hospital. METHODS Prospective...